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I love the light that is being projected from the top of the bridge. There was so much light with several cars traveling West on the bridge that it got washed out but it creates an interesting effect no the less.
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Friday, August 08, 2008
Alton Illinois 1.13
Thursday, August 07, 2008
26 cheerleaders get stuck ...
26 cheerleaders get stuck in elevator at UT's Jester Residence Hall
AUSTIN -- Forget Aggie jokes.
Cheerleaders attending camp at the University of Texas have provided
more than enough funny fodder for the state this summer.
Ever wondered how many cheerleaders can fit onto an elevator? We’ll give you a hint: Not 26.
But a group of peppy campers found this out the hard way at UT’s Jester Residence Hall.
Twenty-six cheerleaders packed into an elevator there, but it got stuck
and stayed that way for about 30 minutes.
Some of the girls passed out.
Others used their cell phones to call for help.
One girl was treated and released at a hospital and two others were
treated at the scene after the Tuesday night prank, officials said.
UT officials didn’t think the prank was all that funny.
“It’s dangerous, actually,” said UT police spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon.
“They’re lucky that that’s all that happened.”
Just a few
weeks ago, teens at another campus cheerleading camp had an entire
dormitory evacuated after they smelled an unidentifiable odor.
Hazmat crews descended on the scene and discovered the culprit: burnt popcorn.
But the benign source of the smell didn’t stop dozens of cheerleaders
from complaining of respiratory problems.
TSA to Allow Laptops in Approved Bags: Time
(WASHINGTON) — There's a new option for people annoyed at having to
take their laptops out of their bags at airport security. The
Transportation Security Administration will now allow travelers to
leave their computers inside "checkpoint friendly" cases.
The new rules, announced Tuesday and set to take effect Aug. 16, are intended to help streamline the X-ray inspection lines.
TSA said it reached out to bag manufacturers this year to design
laptop cases that would provide a clear, unobstructed image of the
computer as it passed through an X-ray machine. The agency said the new
bags will be available for purchase this month.
To qualify as "checkpoint friendly," a bag must have a designated
laptop-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine belt
and contains no metal snaps, zippers or buckles and no pockets.
Among the manufacturers selling TSA-approved laptop bags are Mobile Edge, Skooba Design and Targus Inc.
Mexicans in US illegally at more risk of AIDS: REUTERS
By Mica Rosenberg
MEXICO CITY, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Mexican men
living and working illegally in the United States are more likely to
sell their bodies for sex, take drugs or frequent prostitutes than they
would have been in their homeland, increasing their risk of AIDS
infection, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
And if they
are deported, they can take the virus back home with them, the
researchers told an international conference on AIDS in Mexico City.
"They are in a new environment, they are discriminated against, they
are living in harsh conditions, sometimes just in boxes covered in
plastic near the farms where they work," said George Lemp of the
California HIV/AIDS Research Program at the University of California,
who studied 458 Mexicans before and after they left their homeland.
"When people live that way, they engage in high-risk behavior," Lemp said in an interview.
About 11 million Mexicans live in the United States, more than half of
them undocumented, and a recent U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants
and increase in deportations could make the danger of HIV infection
worse, conference delegates said.
The men in the study were
three times more likely to have sex with a prostitute in California
than they were before leaving Mexico, Lemp's research showed. They were
five times more likely to have sex while using drugs or drinking and 13
times more likely to have sex with another man.
The men were
more likely to use condoms in the United States, according to the
study. But their risk-taking behavior nonetheless increases the
possibility of infection, Lemp said.
In Mexico, 0.3 percent of the population is infected with HIV. In the United States, the infection rate is 0.6 percent.
Hispanics make up about 15 percent of the U.S. population. They account
for 18 percent of new AIDS diagnoses, according to the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, but determining the infection rate
among illegal Mexican immigrants is difficult, as many do not seek
testing.
Steffanie Strathdee, a professor at the University of
California, San Diego, found that residents of the border city Tijuana
who injected drugs and had been deported from the United States were
four times as likely to be infected with the AIDS virus as drug users
who had not been deported.
New outbreaks of the virus are also being detected in small towns far from the border, researchers said.
Indigenous Zapotec migrants from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca
contracted HIV in the United States but were often too afraid of
deportation to seek medical care, a joint study by Mexico's health
ministry and the California HIV/AIDS Research Program found.
If
they return to their villages, they can infect their partners if they
do not know, or are unwilling to reveal, that they have the disease,
ministry researchers said.
MEXICO CITY, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Mexican men
living and working illegally in the United States are more likely to
sell their bodies for sex, take drugs or frequent prostitutes than they
would have been in their homeland, increasing their risk of AIDS
infection, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
And if they
are deported, they can take the virus back home with them, the
researchers told an international conference on AIDS in Mexico City.
"They are in a new environment, they are discriminated against, they
are living in harsh conditions, sometimes just in boxes covered in
plastic near the farms where they work," said George Lemp of the
California HIV/AIDS Research Program at the University of California,
who studied 458 Mexicans before and after they left their homeland.
"When people live that way, they engage in high-risk behavior," Lemp said in an interview.
About 11 million Mexicans live in the United States, more than half of
them undocumented, and a recent U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants
and increase in deportations could make the danger of HIV infection
worse, conference delegates said.
The men in the study were
three times more likely to have sex with a prostitute in California
than they were before leaving Mexico, Lemp's research showed. They were
five times more likely to have sex while using drugs or drinking and 13
times more likely to have sex with another man.
The men were
more likely to use condoms in the United States, according to the
study. But their risk-taking behavior nonetheless increases the
possibility of infection, Lemp said.
In Mexico, 0.3 percent of the population is infected with HIV. In the United States, the infection rate is 0.6 percent.
Hispanics make up about 15 percent of the U.S. population. They account
for 18 percent of new AIDS diagnoses, according to the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, but determining the infection rate
among illegal Mexican immigrants is difficult, as many do not seek
testing.
Steffanie Strathdee, a professor at the University of
California, San Diego, found that residents of the border city Tijuana
who injected drugs and had been deported from the United States were
four times as likely to be infected with the AIDS virus as drug users
who had not been deported.
New outbreaks of the virus are also being detected in small towns far from the border, researchers said.
Indigenous Zapotec migrants from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca
contracted HIV in the United States but were often too afraid of
deportation to seek medical care, a joint study by Mexico's health
ministry and the California HIV/AIDS Research Program found.
If
they return to their villages, they can infect their partners if they
do not know, or are unwilling to reveal, that they have the disease,
ministry researchers said.
Prison Unit
We were traveling through Huntsville Texas to get to Houston to visit a few more people before we were to travel back home. We stopped at the Texas Prison Museum and also I took a few photos of some of the TDCJ Units that are located along I45 South. This is one of them.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
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